John Taylor Gatto Quotes

Adults often assume that most learning is the result of teaching and that exploratory, spontaneous learning is unusual. But actually, spontaneous learning is more fundamental.

Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. Most people learn best by being "with it," yet school makes them identify their personal, cognitive growth with elaborate planning and manipulation.

We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.

Teaching can be learning, especially if student curiosity with the question 'What's going on here?' can be elicited.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

A teacher is better than two books.

The manner in which I learned to read and write, not only had great influence on my own mind, as I acquired it with the most perfect ease, so much so, that I have no recollection whatever of learning the alphabet

I'm having an amazing time teaching through the lives of people much like Jesus did.

The purpose of adult education is to help them to learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them from learning.

we have not yet developed a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination.

Learning results from what the student does and thinks, and only from what the student does and thinks. The teacher can advance learning only by influencing the student to learn.

The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only poor caricatures of apprentices who, at the end of their apprenticeship, will not even have a trade.

Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.

I'm not a fan of technology . I'm a fan of pedagogy, of understanding how people learn and the most effective learning methods. But technology enables some exciting changes.

Nothing important can be taught, only learned.

First let a man teach himself, and then he will be taught by others.

Teaching has never been far from my life. It's the most natural thing I do. Apparently, as I said, I cannot not do it.

I do three things. I do teaching, I do conducting and I do playing. And each one of those sort of helps the other.

We need to look at learning as the product of educational self-organization. It’s not about making learning happen; it’s about letting it happen.

Supposing I said there was a planet without schools or teachers, where study was unknown, and yet the inhabitants -- doing nothing but live and walk about -- came to know all things, to carry in their minds the whole of learning; would you not think I was romancing? Well, just this, which seems so fanciful as to be nothing but the invention of a fertile imagination, is a reality. It is the child's way of learning.

The mere imparting of information is not education. Above all things, the effort must result in making a man think and do for himself.

Learning from experience and learning from education, both are important. Your education & values decide how you learn from your experiences.

Teaching may be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless somebody buys.

Whenever the child is given the notion that he needs to be entertained, learning comes almost to a halt.

Education is what people do to you. Learning is what you do to yourself. Focus on being connected, always learning, fully aware and super present.